My, my, my. Isn’t this just a pickle? I like being right, but there is a limit.I’m here to tell you, I’ve never had this much fun, and I’ve been to two world fairs and a goat fucking. Politics, finance, world order itself hang in the balance, and it gets no better than that.

In just the last month as I reckon it the federal government has injected or is on the verge of injecting over TWO Trillion (that’s trillion with a T) bucks into the financial market. What comes after trillion? it’s million,billion, trillion….but what comes next? Whatever it is, we’ve sunk a quarter of one of them into this mess. In fact, I’m not even counting the fannie and freddie buyout, so probably more like 3 trillion.

Yet, amazingly, no one is to blame. I keep stopping as I write this. Laughter overcomes me. A complete and utter dearth of leadership has created the situation, and suddenly we find that the two candidates aren’t really capable of leading either. Given an incredibly devastating economic crisis just 2 months prior to the election, and McCain panics whilst Obama cowers. The cowering isn’t exactly a surprise. It conforms to both the voting record, and the lack of forthrightness on the part of Barack. The panic was a little surprising. I take it that’s what a bonafide hero does when faced with a situation beyond his understanding. Lacking the tools to capture the essence of the crisis it is better to do be doing something useless than nothing at all. I remember the mindset clearly from my time in the military. I believe they teach it at The Basic Officers Course.

So what we have is a candidate willing to trounce longtime friendships as if they mean nothing, and a candidate incapable of dealing with those issues not related to beans, bullets, and bandages. Let’s look back:

We could’ve had Hillary. Mitt. Guiliani. A host of others. All uniquely unqualifed, but gifted with the egocentricity needed to believe one capable of performing that job. Bill probably would be nice to have around right now. Would be nice if he hadn’t used up his term limits before he achieved wisdom. Oh well. What we have are these two knuckleheads. Both of whom, coincidently, have less executive experience, and less personal appeal than the vice presidential candidate. The hockey mom. Not the inveterate liar and longtime defender of current social policy that has us where we are today. Of course, I’m partial to a well turned calve. Beats worn out political bullshit everytime.

Anyway. I just came by to chuckle. Spending what you don’t have got us here. Blame whoever you want, but that’s what did it. Your friends, neighbors, coworkers…maybe you, maybe a little me. that’s who got us here. Bad spending, atrocious voting. Accepting that in a free and democratic society the government should be bailing out private enterprise. We suck folks, and we just keep sucking. Come the first Tuesday in November we’re going to suck again. We chose these two to lead us to the promised land? We’re we drinking? Hopped up on speedballs and Latte’? Whatever the case. This is frigging hilarious.

awkward conciliatory and encouraging afterward:

If your job is sound, and you aren’t in hock up to your genitalia; if you spend little and conserve copiously you should come through this mess ok. If not, well, tough shit. You were warned.

Lets start with tonights debate. The spin machine is pumping out what a new and different thing the You Tube debate will be. Ok, tell me how? Because “you” are asking the questions. Lets look at that. Over 2000 clips have been submitted according to CNN. Obviously, they don’t have time in two hours to ask 2000 questions. How do we pare it down? Well, lets have CNN’s editors do it. Out of 2000 maybe 30 will be used. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine that the 30 will be those that CNN wants asked. The only input you have is whether you wear a silly hat, or hold your stupid fleabitten cat while you ask it. This is the first debate sanctioned by The Democratic National Committee this election cycle. What to expect? I think John Edwards and Barack Obama have to be more aggressive. Edwards because if he doesn’t he is dead, and Barack just to show that he is capable of it.

I wonder which $2000 suit wearing reject allowed the Republican debate to be held in September? Seems to me something real serious is going down in terms of Iraq that month, and it is likely to turn the Republican debate into a free for all. Which is good for the viewers, and for Ron Paul, but it sandbags the hell out of the hawks on stage. If I we’re Giuliani, McCain, and Romney I’d be mad as hell. Why? Well, do you think much is going to change in the next month and a half in Iraq? Yeah, me either. The Republican governors say its no big deal that their isn’t a front runner. They may be right. Conservatives are notoriously tight with their campaign funding until it shakes out, meaning they’ll be lots of money for the stretch run, and the geneal election.

Have you paid your “support dead farmers” tax? In a 7 year period over $1.1 billion in subsidies was paid to dead farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture pays out over 40% of claims without any review process at all. In most cases they rely on the farm corporations to inform them of a death. They say staff shortages and competing priorities are to blame. Another government agency tossing your money out the window, and generally to people one hell of a lot richer than you. Don’t believe me? Read the article. They’re spending money you could be putting away for your childs tuition to subsidize giant farm companies worth millions.

I was reading this and started doing the math. .09 cents is 3%. That means you now pay roughly $3.00 for a cup of coffee? Oh man, you deserve to be bent over and rammed by Starbucks. That’s pretty much the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

Obama, Osama, and Chelsea’s Momma? Well isn’t that clever. I can understand Mitt’s argument. He isn’t responsible for his followers, and during photo ops you can’t really stop and check every sign. Further, this is kinda funny. Still, if you’re Mitt Romney, you might not want to give anyone any more reason to wonder about you. I know the Mitt fans are going to hate that comment, but he’s on decidedly thin ice anyway, and I see no reason to hand the guy with the gun some bullets. The Mormon vote can’t get him elected, so he might want to make sure and not alienate “others” with stupid photo op tricks.

Lil Wayne and Ja Rule got arrested Sunday night on weapons charges. Lil Wayne also got zapped with drug charges. I really have to know. What is with hip hop stars these days? Do they think they’re in the NFL?

You may not like him, But nobody packs a punch in publishing like Harry Potter. The latest book “harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 8.3 million hardcover copies in the U.S. in the first 24 hours. That shatters the old record of 6.9 copies of…yep, The Half Blood Prince.

The worst flooding in 60 years in Great Britain. I’m not surprised. Al Gore has not done enough to stop Global Wetting, and now you see the consequences. Had he not spent so much time inventing the internet this tragedy could easily have been prevented.